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Ladies & Gents, we have a CRIMP!

9 June, 2013 by Alistair

I attended a meeting up at Glasgow University a while ago, it was hosted by Willie Yeomans and was introducing CRIMP. CRIMP is a citizen science project which aims to provide training in riverfly monitoring to volunteers across the eight counties of the River Clyde catchment. Riverfly monitoring can help protect the quality of our rivers;…

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Save Millport’s Marine Biology Station

6 January, 2013 by Alistair

Anyway, Willie Yeomans was on the text tonight going on about Millport – he was going on about some “Save Millport” campaign. I did not have a bloody scooby what he was on about and I told him that I could probably find better circles to cycle in however he got all mouthy about it so…

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Radio Blunders & Sunny Weather

28 March, 2012 by Alistair

Well? Did any of you catch the shenanigans on Radio Scotland today? If not you can listen in again here. Essentially Theo Pike was being interviewed about his book about urban rivers and they asked your truly to fish the Kelvin with there outside reporter Richard Cadey. Anyway, go and listen to it if you have not already…

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Kids and the Kelvin kicks off!

27 February, 2011 by Alistair

Cleaning out our rivers and trying to make sure the fish are a happy bunch is quite a selfish act for anglers. We have a vested interest in making sure the river is clean and healthy because we want there to be more fish for us to catch. We also do not like wading through…

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WTF – the skunk cabbage came back!

24 May, 200924 May, 2009 by Alistair

So I was planning on hitting the Clyde today however as my car had to return to the garage because of a bizarre squeaking sound (any of my readers mechanics?) I took my beloved wife’s motor and hit the Kelvin. Things went from bad to worse – the temp seemed to plummet and the wind…

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Shit Pipe River..

12 May, 2009 by Alistair

Sunday – it had been raining for three days so pretty much knew the Kelvin would be out of action. I considered a few other possibilities and decided the “river of pipes” was a possibility, I called it that as it has an extraordinary number of pipes over it – most if em’ shite pipes…

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